Author Archives: Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com. – Matt Groening, creator of “Life in Hell,” The Simpsons and Futurama, has a new show in the works, a high fantasy series titled Disenchantment. Set in […]

Florence “Flo” Steinberg, Stan Lee’s secretary from 1962 to 1968 and publisher of 1975’s “Big Apple Comix,” died on July 23, 2017 at the age of 78. On Facebook (via Newsarama), her friend Larry Hama reported Steinberg died of complications from lung cancer and a brain aneurysm. Born in Boston, Steinberg was a graduate of […]

Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com. Saturday was a big day for superheroes at SDCC with Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios‘ panels revealing what to expect from the next few years of superhero […]

At DC/Warner Bros.’s San Diego Comic-Con presentation, it was confirmed the DC Extended Universe’s upcoming films will include Shazam, Suicide Squad 2, The Batman, Justice League Dark, Batgirl, Green Lantern Corps, The Flash: Flashpoint, and Wonder Woman II. It appears the Cyborg movie, originally set for 2020, has been delayed indefinitely. Wonder Woman II was […]

During Marvel’s “Secret Empire” panel at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that the Eisner Award-winning team of writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee (“Daredevil,” “Black Widow”) will take over on “Captain America” from #695. Waid affirmed the series will star the “Steve Rogers that we know and love.” Samnee and Waid’s run will […]

Image Comics have revealed “Hack/Slash” is returning this October in a new series, titled “Hack/Slash: Resurrection.” Tini Howard (“The Magdalena”) will write, with Celor (“Zombie Tramp”) and colorist K. Michael Russell (“Hack/Slash: Son of Samhain”) on art duties. “Hack/Slash,” created by Tim Seeley, is a send-up of the serial killer genre, revolving around Cassie Hack, […]

BOOM! Studios is launching an ongoing “Rugrats” comic in October, written by Box Brown (“Andre the Giant: Life and Legend”) and drawn by Lisa DuBois (“Adventure Time”). It will be published through their kaboom! imprint.The first issue sees Tommy Pickles and friends up against a new terrible enemy: a babycam. The series will be the […]

Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown of comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com. – The BBC announced Jodie Whittaker will play the Thirteenth Doctor in Series 11 of Doctor Who. Whittaker, 35, is the first woman to play the Doctor […]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed IDW Publishing will launch a “Goosebumps” comic in October. Characters from R.L. Stine’s children’s horror novellas will be featured in an anthology title with a rotating creative team. In a statement provided by IDW, Stine said, “My first reading thrill when I was a kid were the EC horror comics […]

Archie Comics have announced March’s one-shot comic “Jughead: The Hunger” will return as an ongoing series in October. The latest in the Archie Horror imprint, “Jughead: The Hunger” reimagined the hamburger-loving Jughead Jones as the latest in a bloodline of murderous werewolves, and Betty Cooper as a member of the family tasked with hunting them. […]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed Titan Comics will publish an adaptation of the animated Beatles movie Yellow Submarine. The comic, written and drawn by Bill Morrison, will be published next year to mark the film’s 50th anniversary. Morrison was creative director of Bongo Comics from 1993 to 2012, and has also been appointed to take […]